For Challengers - Create Your Own Landing Challenge
Location Module
The newly introduced Location module allows you to capture your own favourite locations, based on your current flight location in the flight simulator. In combination with the various flight import options this lets you easily create your own landing challenges.
Can You Beat A Real-World Pilot?
Whether you want to „butter that landing to perfection“ or try the same landing with strong crosswinds and worse weather conditions, Sky Dolly lets you do so with the following easy steps. Once you have selected and exported your favourite destination and flight from either flightaware.com or the equally popular flightradar24.com (refer to the previous post above how to export a flight as KML file from flightaware.com) do the following with an active flight in the flight simulator:
Capture the Landing Location
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Import the flight (either KML or CSV)
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While the replay is still paused in Sky Dolly scroll the timeline marker to the desired location, shortly before the landing
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In the Location module click the Capture button
And that‘s it already. You may now add an optional description, airport identifier (e.g. an ICAO identifier) and country.
Any time you select this entry in the locations table and press the Teleport button you are ready to go for another approach.
In fact, that is exactly how I did the Santos Dumont approach.
Pro tip: the imported altitudes are usually „standard pressure altitudes“ and may not exactly reflect the actual real-world altitude above ground. In the flight simulator you may fine-tune the location (altitude) even more, with the „slew“ mode. Once the desired position has been set press the Capture button in Sky Dolly.
Share Locations
Did you know that you can also copy location coordinates given in various decimal and DMS notation flavours and easily paste (with CTRL + V) them into the Location module? A new table entry is automatically created for you.
Go have a look here in the World Discovery forum or any website like https://flightspots.co/ with collections of interesting places to fly!
Feature Overview v0.12
The following video shows a very nice overview over the latest Sky Dolly v0.12, including the new Location module. The video is commented in German:
Shared with kind permission of the author. @JayDee6281 regularly reports about latest developments, aircraft, scenery and various add-ons for MSFS. You may also check out JayDee‘s other videos on his JayDee YouTube channel.